Archives des Quebec City

PHILIPPE KATERINE – MR. PINK TAKES FLIGHT – June 20 to October 6, 2024

11 September 2024

MAKE WAY FORPHILIPPE KATERINEFREEMR. PINK TAKES FLIGHTJune 20 to October 6, 2024From the fertile mind of Philippe Katerine comes Mignonisme, an artistic movement that brings to life a universe as unexpected and delicate as the artist behind it. With wide-ranging and highly poetic influences, the movement embraces and promotes an aesthetic of “cuteness” in our physical and psychological environments. Simply put, Mignonisme is a love letter to the beauty of simplicity. A series of inflatable...

PHILIPPE KATERINE – MIGNONISTE EXHIBITION – June 20 to October 6, 2024

11 September 2024

MAKE WAY FORPHILIPPE KATERINE FREE MIGNONISTE EXHIBITIONJune 20 to October 6, 2024 From the fertile mind of Philippe Katerine comes Mignonisme, an artistic movement that brings to life a universe as unexpected and delicate as the artist behind it. With wide-ranging and highly poetic influences, the movement embraces and promotes an aesthetic of “cuteness” in our physical and psychological environments. Exposition Mignoniste at EXMURO’s Aire Publique is the gallery show component of the...

ALICIA MARTÍN – CUL-DE-SAC – 2024 – September 13, 2024, to October 27, 2024

16 July 2024

MAKE WAY FOR ALICIA MARTÍN FREE CUL-DE-SAC - 2024 September 13, 2024, to October 27, 2024 Alicia Martín is fascinated by the book, an everyday object that she loves for its formal qualities (colours, smells, textures) as well as its symbolic charge and many possible interpretations. The book is universal. It’s a vehicle for transmitting culture, memory and knowledge, as well as a means of expressing human creativity. Her piles of books in public spaces reflect the power of literature to push...

Philippe Ramette – Ode to travel – MAY 28 TO OCTOBER 27 2024

6 June 2024

MAKE WAY FOR Philippe RAMETTE FREEODE TO TRAVEL MAY 28 TO OCTOBER 27 2024 Éloge du pas de côté, Philippe Ramette’s iconic statue created in 2018 for Nantes, features a man standing on his plinth with one foot in the air, paying homage to the city’s audacity. In his Ode to Travel, the artist reinvents his own artwork and frees the statue from its pedestal, sending the figure off in search of greener pastures. After touring the streets of Nantes in 2023, this “runaway sculpture” crosses the...

Jérôme Trudelle – Resurgence – JUNE 20, 2024, TO MARCH 30, 2025

6 June 2024

MAKE WAY FOR Jérôme trudelleFREERESURGENCE June 2024 to March 30 2025Jérôme Trudelle’s suspended installation is made up of thousands of shards of archeological glass and antique windows, artefacts of unknown origin shorn from their original context. The work’s overall configuration evokes domestic architecture, creating a sort of mise en abîme of the Maison Hazeur in which the work is exhibited. The artist’s engravings on the glass surfaces are based on archives recounting the history of...

Jay Soule – Built on genocide – JUNE 20 2024 TO MARCH 30 2025

6 June 2024

MAKE WAY FOR Jay Soule - ChippewarFREEBUILT ON GENOCIDE JUNE 20 2024 TO MARCH 30 2025A disturbing pile of fake bison skulls transforms the vaulted cellars of the Aire Publique into catacombs. Jay Soule’s hard-hitting installation, this dark crypt filled with anonymous bones evokes a sad correlation between the 19th century decimation of the Great Plains bison and the genocide of First Nations in Canada. A powerful artistic statement and decolonial rereading of history, the installation...

Alissa Bilodeau – Abysses – JUNE 20 2024 TO MARCH 30 2025

6 June 2024

MAKE WAY FOR ALISSA BILODEAUFREEABYSSESJune 20 2024 to MARCH 30 2025Alissa Bilodeau plunges us into the abyssal depths of a cavern seemingly dug into the Côte de la Montagne, a hillside in Old Quebec. The exhibition space is transformed into a phantasmagorical ecosystem of biomorphic creatures, flourishing plant life and mineral outgrowths. Working in her usual medium, the textile artist creates an immersive, sensory-rich world. Through an environment alive with shape, texture, materials,...